Mary Catherine Bateson ist eine amerikanische Schriftstellerin und Kulturanthropologin, deren Werk tief in die Themen Identität, Kultur und Beziehungen zwischen den Generationen eintaucht. Durch ihre anthropologische Brille untersucht sie, wie Individuen und Gesellschaften geformt werden und sich an eine sich ständig verändernde Welt anpassen. Ihre Prosa ist oft introspektiv und nachdenklich, verankert im reichen Kontext ihres eigenen Lebens und den Erkenntnissen, die sie von ihren Eltern, renommierten Anthropologen, gewonnen hat. Bateson bietet eine einzigartige Perspektive auf die Komplexität der menschlichen Existenz und darauf, wie Geschichte und Kultur unsere Gegenwart prägen.
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Mary Catherine Bateson has been called "one of the most original and important thinkers of our time" (Deborah Tannen). Grove Press is pleased to reissue Bateson's deeply satisfying treatise on the improvisational lives of five extraordinary women. Using their personal stories as her framework, Dr. Bateson delves into the creative potential of the complex lives we live today, where ambitions are constantly refocused on new goals and possibilities. With balanced sympathy and a candid approach to what makes these women inspiring, examples of the newly fluid movement of adaptation--their relationships with spouses, children, and friends, their ever-evolving work, and their gender--Bateson shows us that life itself is a creative process. "Well-formulated and passionate ... Offers nothing less than a radical rethinking of the concept of achievement." -- San Francisco Chronicle "Fascinating ... A masterwork of rare breadth and particularity." -- The Boston Globe
"Unique and important . . . Patterns of Culture is a signpost on the road to a freer and more tolerant life." -- New York Times This remarkable introduction to cultural studies eloquently declares the role of culture in shaping human life. Renowned anthropologist Ruth Benedict compares three societies—the Zuni of the southwestern United States, the Kwakiutl of western Canada, and the Dobuans of Melanesia—demonstrating the diversity of behaviors within them. Her groundbreaking study reveals that each human culture is defined by a unique configuration of traits and examines the relationship between culture and the individual. Featuring prefatory remarks by Franz Boas, Margaret Mead, and Louise Lamphere, this provocative work ultimately explores what it means to be human. "That today the modern world is on such easy terms with the concept of culture . . . is in very great part due to this book." -- Margaret Mead "Benedict's work is foundational in teaching us the value of diversity. Her hope for the future resonates in the twenty-first century: that recognition of cultural relativity fosters appreciation for 'the coexisting and equally valid patterns of life which mankind has created from the raw materials of existence.'" -- from the new foreword by Louise Lamphere, past president of the American Anthropological Association. Ruth Benedict (1887-1948) was a leading anthropologist of the twentieth century, and her influential works
Ancora una volta, Bateson ci dà la prova in questo libro che la sua missione non era quella di mettere a posto le cose, ma di scompaginarle e di obbligarci a ripensarle.
Autor/in: Bateson, Mary Catherine Titel: Mit den Augen einer Tochter - Meine Erinnerung an Margaret Mead und Gregory Bateson ISBN: 9783499159046 (früher: 349915904X) Seiten: 268 Gewicht: 1 g Verlag: Rowohlt Erschienen: 1986 Einband: Taschenbuch Zustand: Gut Kurzinfo: Altersbedingter Zustand.--Mary Catharine Bateson, die Tochter der Anthropologen Margarete Mead und Gregory Bateson, promovierte 1963 an der Harvard University. Sie ist Professorin für Anthropologie am Amherst College. Wie erzog Margaret Mead, als Sozialwissenschaftlerin und Familienforscherin weltberühmt, ihre eigene, einzige Tochter? Wie erlebte ein intelligentes Kind die Trennung der Eltern, die Berufstätigkeit und Prominenz ihrer Mutter, die wechselnden Liebesbeziehungen des Vaters